REDACTED 2 - IC Petrojam Investigation - Recruitment and Parties October 18, 2019 final

Page 86 of 486 Petrojam Limited Integrity Commission October 2019 A: I am, we went to university together; we went to UWI together. Q: Okay. So you have been lifelong friends? A: I wouldn’t say lifelong, but we studied together at UWI. … Q: But you could safely say that you were friends? A: Friends is a bit generous but we are acquaintances. I know him; we studied together; we did the same things; we went to university together. … Q: … you consider the request from Dr Bahado-Singh to be unusual? A: That is a good question because I don’t really hear from him, you know we don’t really talk like that . If we have a conversation, it is academic, so a particular something, briefly, a research idea or something. It was strange. He knows I am serving and I have served. From UWI days I have often been on committees to set things right, take an unbiased look. I am also a very numerical person; so in addition to the qualitative assessment, I could do a quantitative assessment on things. I think if you ask, not just him, persons I have been to school with, I try to be unbiased, that’s what I try to be. So I didn’t think it was strange the fact that he knows this about me and he said hey, I have a meeting, I can’t make it.